Quotes About Gods

Man hunts and fights. Woman contrives and dreams; she is the mother of fancy, of the gods.

Man hunts and struggles. Woman intrigues and dreams; she is the mother of fantasy, the mother of the gods. She has second sight, the wings that enable her to fly to the infinite of desire and the imagination… The gods are like men: they are born and they die on a woman's breast…

The fire eye in the clouds survives the gods. To think of a dove with an eye of grenadine And the pines that are cornets, so it occurs, And a little island full of geese and stars: It may be that ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

The reason Miriam and the other women can sing and dance at the end of the exodus narrative is the emergence of new social reality in which the life of the Israelite economy is no longer determined and compelled by the insatiable production quotas of Egypt and its gods (15:20–21).

The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of "God versus the gods.

The first commandment is a declaration that the God of the exodus is unlike all the gods the slaves have known heretofore. This God is not to be confused with or thought parallel to the insatiable gods of imperial productivity. This God is subsequently revealed as a God of mercy, steadfast love, and faithfulness who is committed to covenantal relationships of fidelity (see Exod. 34:6–7).

whether or not people get the gods that they deserve, they tend to get the gods (and demons) that their animals deserve—

The emotional involvement, the pity, desire, and compassion of the bhakti gods causes them to forget that they are above it all, as metaphysics demands, and reduces them to the human level, as mythology demands.

Je deviendrai le roi d'Haïti un jour parce que les dieux m'ont déjà choisi et que je dirigerai le pays dans la bonne direction.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

if you can rid your life of realities by night and keep your days as one long dream always, then you will indeed be blessed of the Gods. Gath

L'intervention des deux hommes avait peut-être été superflue, mais tout le monde savait que les dieux aidaient ceux qui se prenaient en main. Il

Si tu as l'intention de juger les actes des dieux, Walliesmith, tu dois savoir ce que les dieux savent.

Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods (from Hephaistos's forge itself, as it happens) to make the lives of mortals better, so with a masterful bit of prototypical game-theory, Zeus set up a scenario that would, metaphorically, blow up in everybody's faces and make life that much worse.

He had begun to accept the background noise of the falls was no natural phenomenon but rather the thundering tears of gods.

Hirad, are you getting this?" "Sort of." "Gods falling, a sign of life!

Now but before a fool's opinion of himself," the brown man cried, "the Gods are powerless. Oh, yes, and envious, too!

Men fear joy too much, fear their instincts. Fear a surrender to their feelings. Fear loving themselves in others and loving others in themselves. Fear loving their true gods.

Isn't it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn't it only through laughter we can stay human?

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .

Man, know thyself, and thou wilt know the universe and the gods. —INSCRIPTION AT THE TEMPLE OF DELPHI

the progress of which mankind is so proud, may well be known to the gods by another name.

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

Chose me because I was good at it. At suffering. That is whom the gods choose.